Longdesc Misuse: How Prevalent?
As far back as August 2008, I’ve been aware of Ian Hickson’s fallacious arguments that elements and attributes of HTML4 should not be included in HTML5 merely because web authors misuse them. In the...
View ArticleConfusion over HTML5 & WAI-ARIA
Recently, Everett Zufelt posted an excellent blog post titled: Are You Confused by HTML5 and WAI-ARIA Yet?. In his post, Everett outlines a number of areas in which the evolving HTML5 specification and...
View ArticleAccessible Form Labeling & Instructions
When I do an audit of a web-based system against WCAG, I subject each test unit to both automated & manual tests against nearly 250 Best Practices. Of those, 40 of them relate directly to forms....
View ArticleFeature misuse !== feature uselessness
Ugh. Longdesc. For those who don’t follow such things, the fight over the longdesc attribute in HTML5 goes back to (at least) 2008. Back then, the WHATWG was also considering eliminating the alt...
View ArticleLongdesc – Where are the alternatives?
Non-text Content is “any content that is not a sequence of characters that can be programmatically determined or where the sequence is not expressing something in human language”. Mostly what comes to...
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